Thailand

See also: Thaïland

Garuda Emblem of Thailand

English

Etymology

From Thai +‎ -land, from Thai ไทย (tai), from ไท (tai, “Tai, or 'free' via folk etymology”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪlænd/, /ˈtaɪlənd/

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Thailand

2. A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Kingdom of Thailand. Capital: Bangkok. Former name: Siam.
   • 2011 November 2, 00:07:14 from the start, in Conan Delivers Chinese Food in NYC (Conan)‎^[1], Conan O'Brien (actor), Team Coco:

     Are you from Thailand? I got you soup from Thailand!

Related terms

• Thai

Descendants

• → Thai: ไทยแลนด์ (tai-lɛɛn)

Translations

country in Southeast Asia

• Abkhaz: Таиланд (Tʼajland)
• Afrikaans: Thailand
• Albanian: Tajlandë f, Tajlanda f (definite)
• Amharic: ታይላንድ (tayland)
• Arabic: تَايْلَانْد f (tayland), تَايْلَنْد f (tayland)

  Hijazi Arabic: تايلند f (tāyland)

• Armenian: Թաիլանդ (hy) (Tʻailand)
• Assamese: থাইলেণ্ড (thailendo)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܲܝܠܲܢܕܵܐ f (taylandā)
• Asturian: Tailandia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Tailand (az)
• Belarusian: Тайла́нд m (Tajlánd), Тайля́нд m (Tajljánd)
• Bengali: শ্যামদেশ (bn) (śêmodeś), থাইল্যান্ড (bn) (thailênḍ)
• Breton: Thailand
• Bulgarian: Тайла́нд (bg) m (Tajlánd)
• Burmese: ထိုင်း (my) (htuing:), ယိုးဒယား (yui:da.ya:)
• Catalan: Tailàndia (ca) f
• Chechen: Таиланд (Tailand)
• Cherokee: ᏔᏱᎦᏙᎯ (tayigadohi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 泰國／泰国 (taai³ gwok³)

  Eastern Min: 泰國／泰国 (Tái-guók)

  Hokkien: 泰國／泰国 (Thài-kok)

  Mandarin: 泰國／泰国 (zh) (Tàiguó)

  Wu: 泰國／泰国 (⁵tha-koq)

• Czech: Thajsko (cs) n
• Danish: Thailand n
• Dhivehi: ސިޔާމު (siyāmu)
• Dutch: Thailand (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཐཱའི་ལེནཌ (thā'i lenḍ)
• Esperanto: Tajlando (eo), Tajujo
• Estonian: Tai (et)
• Farefare: Taigo
• Faroese: Tailand n
• Finnish: Thaimaa (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Tayilanda f
• French: Thaïlande (fr) f
• Galician: Tailandia (gl) f
• Georgian: ტაილანდი (ka) (ṭailandi)
• German: Thailand (de) n
• Greek: Ταϊλάνδη (el) f (Taïlándi)
• Gujarati: થાઇલેન્ડ (thāilenḍ)
• Hausa: Tailan
• Hawaiian: Tailani
• Hebrew: תאילנד/ תַּיְלַנְד f (tailand)
• Hindi: श्यामदेश m (śyāmdeś), थाईलैंड (hi) m (thāīlaiṇḍ), स्याम (hi) m (syām), श्याम (hi) m (śyām)
• Hungarian: Thaiföld (hu)
• Icelandic: Taíland (is) n
• Indonesian: Thailand (id), Muangthai
• Interlingua: Thailandia
• Italian: Tailandia (it) f, Thailandia (it) f
• Japanese: タイ (ja) (Tai), タイ国 (タイこく, Taikoku), 泰国 (ja) (たいこく, Taikoku)
• Kalenjin: Thailand
• Kamba: Thailand
• Kannada: ಥೈಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ (thailyāṇḍ)
• Kazakh: Таиланд (Tailand)
• Khmer: ថៃ (km) (thay), ប្រទេសថៃ (prɑteih thay), ថៃឡង់ដ៍ (thaylɑng), ថៃឡង់ (thaylɑng), ទៃយ (tɨyy), សៀម (km) (siəm) (Siam)
• Korean: 태국(泰國) (ko) (Taeguk), 타이 (ko) (Tai)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Taylenda (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Таиланд (Tailand)
• Lao: ໄທ (thai), ເມືອງໄທ (mư̄angthai), ປະເທດໄທ (pa thētthai), ສຍາມ (sa nyām) (Siam)
• Latin: Thailandia f
• Latvian: Taizeme (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Tailandas (lt) m
• Lü: ᦵᦙᦲᧂᦺᦒ (moengthay)
• Luhya: Thailand
• Luo: Thailand
• Macedonian: Та́јланд m (Tájland)
• Malay: Negara Thai, Thailand (ms)
• Maltese: it-Tajlandja
• Maori: Tairana
• Maranao: Sam
• Marathi: थायलंड (thāylaṇḍa)
• Meru: Thailand
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Тайланд (Tajland), Тай Вант Улс (Taj Vant Uls)

• Navajo: Tʼáí bikéyah
• Nepali: थाइल्यान्द (thāilyānda)
• Norman: Thailande f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Thailand (no) n

  Nynorsk: Thailand (nn) n

• Odia: ଥାଇଲ୍ୟାଣ୍ଡ (thāilyāṇḍa)
• Ossetian: Таиланд (Tailand)
• Pali: deyyaraṭṭha n, syāmaraṭṭha n (archaic)
• Pashto: تايلېنډ m (tāylenḍ), ټايلېند m (ṭāylend), سيام m (siyām) (Siam)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تایلَنْد (fa) (tâyland)

• Polish: Tajlandia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Tailândia (pt)
• Punjabi: ਥਾਈਲੈਂਡ (thāīlaiṇḍ)
• Romanian: Tailanda f, Thailanda (ro) f
• Russian: Таила́нд (ru) m (Tailánd), Сиа́м m (Siám) (Siam)
• Sanskrit: दैयदेश (daiyadeśa), दैयप्रदेश (daiyapradeśa) (literally), श्यामप्रदेश (śyāmapradeśa) (archaic)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Та̏јланд m

  Roman: Tȁjland (sh) m

• Sinhalese: තායිලන්තය (si) (tāyilantaya)
• Slovak: Thajsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Tájska (sl) f
• Spanish: Tailandia (es) f
• Swahili: Uthai
• Swedish: Thailand (sv) n
• Sylheti: ꠕꠣꠁꠟꠦꠘ (táilen)
• Tagalog: Thailand, Siam, Taylandiya
• Tajik: Таиланд (Tayiland)
• Tamil: தாய்லாந்து (tāylāntu)
• Tatar: Таиланд (Tailand)
• Telugu: థాయిలాండ్ (te) (thāyilāṇḍ)
• Thai: ไทย (th) (tai), เมืองไทย (mʉʉang tai), ประเทศไทย (bprà-têet tai), สยาม (th) (sà-yǎam) (Siam), ไทยแลนด์ (th) (tai-lɛɛn) (colloquial)
• Tibetan: ཐའི་ལེན (tha'i len)
• Turkish: Tayland (tr)
• Turkmen: Taýland
• Ukrainian: Таїла́нд (uk) m (Tajilánd)
• Urdu: تھائِیلَینْڈ m (thāīlainḍ), تھائِی لَینْڈ m (thāī lainḍ)
• Uyghur: تايلاند (tayland)
• Uzbek: Tailand (uz)
• Vietnamese: Thái Lan (vi) (泰蘭), nước Thái Lan
• Welsh: Gwlad Thai
• White Hmong: Thaib Teb
• Yiddish: טײַלאַנד n (tayland)
• Yoruba: Táíláǹdì
• Zhuang: Daigoz

See also

• Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

Further reading

• Thailand on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Thailand on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Thailand on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Category:Thailand on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Thailand

1. Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia; capital: Bangkok)

Derived terms

• Thailander
• Thailands

Related terms

• Thai
• Thais

Further reading

• Thailand on the Afrikaans Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^af

Danish

Proper noun

Thailand

1. Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia)

Related terms

• thai
• thailandsk
• thailænder

Further reading

• Thailand on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Compound of Thai +‎ land.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑi.lɑnt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Thai‧land

Proper noun

Thailand n

1. Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia)

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Thailand n (proper noun, genitive Thailands or (optionally with an article) Thailand)

1. Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia)

Derived terms

• Thailänder
• thailändisch

Related terms

• Land

Further reading

• “Thailand” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• Tailandia (very rare)
• Tailand

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Thailand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tai̯lan]

Proper noun

Thailand

1. Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia)

See also

• (countries of Asia) negara-negara di Asia; Afganistan, Arab Saudi, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Filipina, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Israel, Jepang, Kamboja, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Korea Selatan, Korea Utara, Kuwait, Laos, Libanon, Maladewa, Malaysia, Mesir, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestina, Qatar, Rusia, Singapura, Siprus, Sri Lanka, Suriah, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor Leste, Tiongkok, Turki, Turkmenistan, Uni Emirat Arab, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yaman, Yordania

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Thailand

1. Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia)

Related terms

• thailender, thailending
• thailandsk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Thailand

1. Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia)

Related terms

• thailendar, thailending
• thailandsk

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Thailand n (genitive Thailands)

1. Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia)

Related terms

• thailändare
• thailändsk
• thailändska

References

• Thailand in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH